Gaiter.



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GAITEB.

(Appuion med ou. 25, 1901.; (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES @PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM LANZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GAITER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 694,164, dated February 25, 1902.

Application led October 25, 1901. Serial No. 79,966; (No model.)

zen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gaiters, of which the following is a specification and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to a gaiter or legging designed to be worn by soldiers, Sportsmen, and the like, and has particular reference to the means employed therewith for securing the same upon the leg of the wearer. In the gaiter as now ordinarily made one of the flaps thereof is provided with a series of eyelets, while the edge of the opposite flap has a series of hooks, and one cord or lace passing through the eyelets and engaging the hooks is employed to draw the two flaps together.

In lacing with one string, as sometimes practiced, the cord or lace is carried across the outer face and over the edge of the'dap to alternate hooks in the form of loops, but only between every alternate pair of eyelets, the loops engaging the other hooks being carried thereto from the inner face of the ap. It results from this that the section of the flap between alternate eyes is free to buckle up and wrinkle under certain conditions, as when the cord is drawn tight, thereby not only offering projections in which vines and brushes may catch, but also presenting an untidyappearance, and this is also the case when the gaiter is laced in the usual mannerover and under the edge of the ap. The object of my invention is to avoid this difficulty and to provide a laced gaiter which will fit closely to the leg of the wearer, which will not buckle up or wrinkle along the'line of lacing, and which will present a neat appearance.

The invention consists in providing a gaiter with a pair of laces, or preferably a single lace, the strands or ends of which are passed in alternation along the inner and outer faces of the iiap between adjacent pairs of eyelets and the portion of each lace passing along the outer face of the flap being looped over the hooks betweeen such pairs of eyelets.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the gaiter and Ashowing the manner of lacing the same. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detailelevation, on an enlarged scale, of a section of the gaiter; and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3 looking in the direction of the arrow.

10 indicates the body of the gaiter or legging, which may be made of canvas, leather, or other suitable material, and is preferably provided with a reinforcing-strip 13, secured tothe under faceofthe overlappingliapl1,and a similar strip 14, secured to the under face of the underlapping flap 12. Located near the edge of the flap 1l are the usual eyelets 15, alternating with the hooks 16, riveted through the underlapping fiap 12 and its reinforcingstrip 14.

The lacing-cord may consist of a pair of cords or a single cord, as shown, having an intermediate knot or stop 17 and providing the two ends 1S and 19. These ends of the lace pass through an eyelet 2O at the bottom of the iiap from the inside of the gaiter, and the knot or stop 17 is drawn against the said eyelet. One end, as 19, is carried outwardly through the bottom eyelet in the ap 11 and which coincides with the eyelet 20 in the flap 12 and then along the outer face of the flap 11 to the second eyelet, passing through the same and along the inner face of the ilap 1l to the third eyelet, and so on the length of the gaiter, finally passing from the top eyelet across to and through an eyelet 2l at the upper end of the Hap 12; The other end or 18 after passing through the eyelet 2O is carried between the flaps 11 12 and passed up through the second eyelet of the flap 1l, then along the outer face of the flap 11 to the third eyelet, down through the latter, and continued to the top of the gaiter,Vv as with the end 19.

It will be observed from the preceding that the portions of the cords or ends 18 and 19 between adjacent pairs of eyelets pass on opposite sides of the flap 1l and alternate with each pair of eyes-that is to say, the cord passing along the outer face of the iiap between one pair of eyelets extends along the inner face of the flap between the next pair of eyelets.

After the cords have been threaded through the eyelets in the manner described the portion of each between each pair of eyelets is looped over the hook opposite thereto, as shown in Fig. 3. When worn, the ends ofthe cords are drawn tight to pull the Ilaps snugly about the leg of the wearer and secured, as by a knot 22.

By the arrangement herein described, a loop being carried across the outer face of the flap 1l to each hook between adjacent pairs of eyelets, all of the loops are located on the outer face of the flap, and the edge thereof is thereby held firmly against the under flap l2, and any tendency of the edge to buckle or double up is overcome. If desired, and in order to prevent the accidental disengagement of the lacing-cord from the hooks, a flexible or yielding shield or guard 23, preferably formed of a tuck or fold inclosing a stiffeningcord in the body of the gaiter, may be provided. This tuck or fold is stitched through the two thicknesses thereof under the inclosed cord and through the flap 12, whereby the shield is caused to roll over toward the hooks 16 and is maintained in close relation to the mouths thereof. This is illustrated in Fig. 4, where it will be seen that the shield acts as akeeper for the lacingcord, though owing to its flexibility, which permits of its being rolled back away from the hooks, not interfering with the lacing and unlacing of the gaiter when either is necessary. The shield or guard also serves to detlect any objects, such as brushes or vines, with which the leg may come in Contact and prevent them from catching in the hooks or lacing.

The gaiteris provided with the usual footstrap 24, secured by a buckle 25.

I claim as my inventionl. Agaiteror legging comprising abodyhaving overlapping fiaps, one of which is provided with a series of eyelets and the other with a series of hooks alternating withthe eyelets, and a pair of lacing ends threaded in opposite directions through each eyelet and Which extend along the opposite faces of the flap between adjacent pairs of eyelets, the sections of the lacing ends on the outer face of the flap between the eyelets beingdesigned to be looped over the hooks opposite thereto.

2. Agaiterorleggingcomprisingabodyhaving overlapping flaps, one of which is provided with a series ot' eyelets and the other with a series of hooks alternating with the eyelets, and a lacing-cord one of the ends of which is threaded through the eyelets and passes along the outer face of the ap between alternate pairs of the eyelets, the other end also passing through the eyelets and alternating with the first-mentioned end.

3. Agaiter orleggingcomprisingabodyhaving overlapping flaps, one of which is provided with a series of eyelets and the other with a series of hooks alternating with the eyelets, an eyelet, 20, at the bottom of the flap carrying the hooks, a lacing-cord provided With a stop between its ends and passing through the eyelet 20, one of the ends of the said cord being threaded through the series of eyelets and passing along the outer face of the flap between alternate pairs of eyelets, the other end of the cord also being threaded through the eyelets and alternating with the first-mentioned end, the sections of the lacing-cord on the outer face of the flap between the eyelets being designed to be looped over the hooks opposite thereto.

VILLIAM LANZ.

Vitnesses:

ARTHUR B. SEIBoLD, LoUIs K. GILLsoN. 

